by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m writing this Thursday morning, so things may have changed by the time you read this – but something very weird is happening at Dartmouth, where three tenured professors in the psychology department who do brain research have been put on paid leave and...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The explanations that acupuncture gives for itself – chi and all that – collapse into a puddle of silliness when examined closely, and yet acupuncture does seem to sometimes accomplish useful things, especially reducing pain. Whether something is...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire doesn’t have any real caves, due to our geology, but we still have some hibernaculums – places where bats gather to over-winter. One is a mine in the North Country that has become well known to frustrated spelunkers. This fall, the New...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2017 | Newsletter
Being “free range” is a good thing if you’re a chicken, duck or other domestic fowl – unless you range onto the property of an irritated neighbor, that is. Under a proposed addition to state law, such trespass might make the bird’s owner liable for a fine. “A...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
If you missed the October Science Cafe, about out understanding and treatment of cancer, you can watch it online right here thanks to Concord TV. The community access channel for Concord films* each episode and puts it on their YouTube channel, so you can scroll...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
To follow up on the most fascinating direct-democracy push in the world: The UK government has rejected a petition to change the soccer-ball illustration on certain road signs, making it so they are no longer geometrically impossible, covered solely with hexagons...
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